STIPAN TADIĆ – CITY LIGHTS

Posted on 2020-08-24

Over the last several months, Tadić has explored the city at night, observing, drawing and writing down his observations. He found Chinatown to be of special interest. Even though it is an enduring symbol of the city, more of its essence was revealed in the absence of crowds. While the works were intended to document an historic moment in the city, they also came to serve as a psychological diary for the Croatian-born Tadić, who observed a new form of dystopia in New York’s empty streets. Colorful neon signs were flashing but no one was there to see them.

Opposite – 169 Bar, 2020

Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2020

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

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GABRIELĖ ADOMAITYTĖ – TRAVERSING DISCRETE LOCI

Posted on 2020-08-24

Traversing Discrete Loci, refers to the method of loci, an ancient Greek memory enhancement technique which uses imaginary locations for storing information through mental image-making (loci being Latin for “places”). Gabrielė Adomaitytė has been working with the story of an archivist in Lithuania, who has turned his house into a museum called The Clothes Archive. The museum is essentially a shrine to the Soviet era. Adomaitytė projects this retro-utopian world into the series of paintings presented in The Bakery. The multiplicity of layers alludes to the lack of a singular narrative; instead the narratives come together in a memory palace suspended in time through collage and drawing.

Opposite – Felix, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 22nd, 2020

Annet Gelink Gallery
Laurierstraat 187-189
NL-1016PL
Amsterdam

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CAMILO RESTREPO – PESCANDO CON DINAMITA

Posted on 2020-08-17

Pescando Con Dinamita, is a solo online exhibition by Medellín-based Camilo Restrepo that introduces two new series of work–Pescando Con Dinamita and Juegos Finitos / Juegos Infinitos. In the former, Restrepo continues his practice of creating large scale drawings that bear numerous scars. When he completes the drawing phase, he perforates the paper with a soldering iron before causing all the colors to run by spraying water at high pressure. He then meticulously repairs all the damage. The title refers to the brutal practice of fishing with high explosives, something that is done in Colombia. Restrepo sees this as another aspect of our hyper-masculine culture, one that mostly relies on violence to solve its problems.
In the latter series, the artist first downloaded a photograph from the Internet of someone who was killed in connection with drug trafficking. He then digitally erased the background and printed it in the 1 x 1 inch format of a passport photograph. He then aggressively drew upon the image in red ink, re-photographed it with a macro lens and finally, printed out the image in a larger size. These steps rendered the subjects largely unrecognizable, as though their faces were obliterated by violence. In so doing, Restrepo aims to draw attention to the Colombian practice of glorifying death while pointing out that the war on drugs has caused deaths on all sides of the issue. Good people are killed by narcos and narcos are killed by the police and each other. In this series, every mutilated face is nearly the same.

Opposite – Pescando Con Dinamita 1, 2020

Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2020

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

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ALIEN LANDSCAPE

Posted on 2020-08-17

Alien Landscape brings together a variety of contemporary approaches to depicting the natural world and beyond. The artists in this exhibition confront the vastness of their subject matter by directing our attention toward a particular vista, phenomenon, plant or creature to be considered anew. Conspicuously absent are people themselves, though traces of human intervention and technology appear. Rendering terrain both observed and invented, these works reframe our perspective, while in turn cultivating a heightened awareness of ourselves as just a small part of a big planet— one that requires our attention and care.

Opposite – Matt Johnson, Alien Cactus, 2015

Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2020

303 Gallery
555 W 21st Street
NY 10011
New York

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SUMMER BREEZE

Posted on 2020-08-17

A group show containing works from gallery artists: Maria José Arjona, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Teresa Burga, Valérie Favre, Simon Cantemir Hausí, Diango Hernández, Anna K.E., Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Johnny Miller, Chloe Piene and Carrie Mae Weems.

Opposite – Anna K.E., Studio Landscape I , 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2020

Galerie Barbara Thumm
Markgrafenstrasse 68
D-10969 Berlin
Germany

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KEVIN MCNAMEE-TWEED – TABLEAUX VIVANT

Posted on 2020-08-10

Tableaux Vivant is a solo exhibition by Kevin McNamee-Tweed which features a selection of new ceramic paintings which are his largest and most complicated works to date. Each shows a salon-like interior with a myriad of disparate images. In one of the works, TXT, all of these images nicely coexist: an active volcano, a cover of the fictional Iowa Review, a spider hanging from its web, a round mammal standing on its hind legs, a hexagonal trade sign with a leaf pattern, an ad with contorted fingers and the word “DONT,” a houseboat at sea with a palm tree at the edge of land, a seesaw with a four-headed person on one end and three-headed person at the other, a sculpture of a trumpet-blowing figure riding a rooster, a headless pegasus with a large “P” where it’s head would be, a pollywog in an enclosed glass sphere with a tailed frog just outside the glass. In his essay on the artist in the new monograph, Ceramic Paintings, Andrew Berardini writes, “This is a world of dreams and memories that erupt into pictures, they are signs of the new flowers and new stars sprinkling over the fields and skies of the fleeting, empty outer world. A sign of what is and what was and had been and can be and it is only ever a picture away.”

Opposite – Back from Gary’s, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2020

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

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